The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-05

might and main for plate ticklers and devil
take the dyspepsia. Pity he doesn't.
Just a fact or two as appetiZers. The
! great Peninsular and Oriental the z. & o.
! Steamship Company employ East Indian
coolies to do the hardest work on their
steamers, because they are stronger,
/ healthier and stand the climate better than
/ Englishmen, and because-nct being meat
eaters-their diet costs only &c. per day.
There are miners in the English coal pits.
! the hardest workers i'll the land who have
not eaten any kind of meat for years. | am
not vegetarian, because | banker after
the fieshpots, and their savory odors cast a
spell over my innocent soul; yet ] expert
mented for one whole year without tasting
| flesh or gravy in any form, and all the
time my health was perfect and my weight
increased. The dock porters of CONSTANT
nople carry heavier burdens, $50 pounds and
upwards, more easily than the laborers of
England or America, yet their main diet is
bread and FIGS, and they are teetOtal and
vegetarian The laborers in Spain live
chiefly on bread and onions. and are mar
velOusly strong
The flesh and blood superstition is quite
as baseless in diet as in theology A horse
is almost as strong, swift healthy and hand
some as a two-legged man. and they both
have the same internal machinery; the one
eats beef and enjoys dyspepsia, the other
avoids it and flourishes Ten cents worth
of wheat, oatmeal, rice, fruits, buttermilk,
bread, cheese, onions, or portions of several
of these, Will enable man to do his ordi-
nary days work at least as well as any
other assortment of foods lie can buy for
dollar. tSat
What would be good diet for those who
do not need to study their purses, yet who
would like simple, healthy and enjoyable
dietary? To such | would say drop the
heavy meat breakfast right away. Not
that meat is bad but it IS not the best to
start the day on. 1t distends the stomach,
indisposes us for head work, and often leads
to that other downright mischievous stu
pidity, the II o'clock beer or cocktail. The
second evil is taken to cure the first, as if
two black eyes are better than one. Bread
mot the spoiled white stuff, but the natural
dark colored wheat as groundD, tea or cocoa,
eggs, and the hundred and one non-hesh
dishes, with little fish and as much fruit
as you like. That's model meal, as expert
enCe will prove.
Talking of fish the more the better Pound
for pound il is as nutritious as flesh, though
it doesn't seem to fill us so fully, and its
chemical valne is above that of meats.
When have extra hard brain work to do,
say an average of twelve or fourteen hours
for two or three wees at a stretch, | knock
off meats entirely and eat all the fish | can.
Result, perfect health and strength and no
ItdudCutS.
For dinner, fish, soups q am not exclud-
ing meat, though soups can be made with
out it that tastes just the same and are quite
as good every wav), buildings, desert. If
any one cares to prove for himself how little
the flesh dishes on his dinner table are nee
| essary to him, let him just reverse the
courses, beginning with the fruit, then
cheese and crackers, the puddings, etc.
warrant he will turn up his nose at the
meat when he comes to it, and he won't miss
| it in the least
l knew an eminent lady who for forty
| years had never tasted meat. She was a
marvel of mental and physical strength
Another author friend kept his health and
his average weight of 100 pounds on a diet
| that never included meat, the average cost
of his food being only &c. per day. An
| other well known literary man, who looked as
beefy as a butcher, was, when last met
| him, in his eighth year of strict abstinence
| from flesh. Another friend, hard literary
worker, has been practically a lifelong
vegetarian, but he looks too shriveled up to
be champion specimen.
OLIVER H. g. LEIGH